911 briefs -- Published Feb. 2, 2013

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Feb 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - Police are searching for a man and two accomplices who robbed a woman in a Costco parking lot and returned to the store the following day to use the cash card they stole from her, authorities said.

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STOCKTON - Police are searching for a man and two accomplices who robbed a woman in a Costco parking lot and returned to the store the following day to use the cash card they stole from her, authorities said.

The man is described as a Latino with a light complexion, police said. According to authorities, the man was driving a silver Acura through the Costco parking lot in the 1600 block of East Hammer Lane about 2:50 p.m. Jan. 20. The Acura stopped near a 44-year-old woman who was loading groceries into her car. A Latino woman, approximately 24 years old standing 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 130 pounds with a brown ponytail, got out of the Acura and stole the victim's purse. The victim reached into the Acura and grabbed the strap of her purse, but the thieves drove off, dragging the victim for several feet.

The next day, the driver of the Acura returned to the store with another man, who was described as a Latino with a black Raiders hat and a gray sweatshirt. They used the victim's cash card to purchase a Samsung tablet for approximately $250 before returning to the store 15 minutes later to return the merchandise for cash, officials said.

STOCKTON - A Stagg High School student suffered a minor injury during a confrontation outside school after dismissal Thursday.

The 15-year-old girl had been among a group of onlookers watching a fight that broke out on a levee near campus about 2:30 p.m., according to Stockton Unified School District spokeswoman Dianne Barth. After the fight, somebody fired a gun from a departing vehicle.

The student went to a hospital that evening and was treated for a grazing injury on her foot and released, Barth said. Stockton Unified police found four shell casings at the site of the incident, but there had been no arrests as of Friday afternoon.

The after-school gunfire put the school on lockdown for the second time Thursday. That morning, police swept the campus because of a report that students had been seen with a gun off campus before school.

STOCKTON - Police responding to a disturbance call shortly after midnight Thursday arrested a man who spat at an officer and made threats toward the officer and his family, authorities said.

Officers determined that Joseph Torres, 24, had vandalized a car and stolen a stereo out of another vehicle, police said. As he was being taken to jail, the man spat at the officer and made threats against him.

Torres was arrested on suspicion of vandalism, auto burglary, possession of stolen property, battery on an officer, threatening an officer and public intoxication, police said.

STOCKTON - Police are searching for three men who committed armed robbery about 12:15 a.m. Friday at a business in the 800 block of East March Lane, authorities said.

One of the robbers ordered an employee to remove money from the safe while the other two ordered two customers to the ground and took their belongings, police said. The three men then fled in a gold, four-door 1990s Honda Accord with tinted windows, officers said.

All three men were armed with semiautomatic handguns and wore dark ski masks, dark clothing and Air Jordan tennis shoes, authorities said.